Crying for loved ones passing away = shame on us??

Truthseeker · 06-19-2024, 09:21 PM

I've found Lee's inhuman teaching about the so-called magnifying Christ in Life-study of Philppians. Lee talked about the story of a certain brother whose wife passed away. If a brother cries for his wife, he will fail to magnify Christ and this will be a shame for him.
Here the excerpt from the message:

One day the wife of a certain brother died. Her death was a great loss to her husband and children. If in our contact with this brother we had seen nothing but sorrow and tears, we would have had a sense of shame. In such a case, the loss of his wife would have brought him into shame, and there would have been no manifestation of Christ and no magnification of Him. As a result, there would have been no experience of salvation. Rather, the brother’s experience in grieving over the loss of his wife would not have been different from the experience of an unbeliever. However, with this brother the situation was very different. He could rejoice, praise the Lord, and testify of the Lord’s grace. Truly in his situation the Lord was manifested and magnified, and the brother experienced salvation. In this experience of salvation, the brother was saved in his suffering from the loss of his wife. Furthermore, this salvation enabled the brother to magnify Christ.

(Witness Lee, excerpt from the Life-study of Philppians, message 7, Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California, USA).

So, I feel something weird here. Can't we cry or feel sad when our beloved ones have passed away? Or we just try to be happy all the time. I feel the toxic positivity in Lee's teaching. This kind of teaching is very unhealthy for our spiritual life.

Lord Jesus cried for Lazarus. Should He be put to shame because He failed to magnify Father? This doesn't make sense.

06-19-2024, 09:21 PM	#1
Truthseeker Member Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 98	Crying for loved ones passing away = shame on us?? I've found Lee's inhuman teaching about the so-called magnifying Christ in Life-study of Philppians. Lee talked about the story of a certain brother whose wife passed away. If a brother cries for his wife, he will fail to magnify Christ and this will be a shame for him. Here the excerpt from the message: One day the wife of a certain brother died. Her death was a great loss to her husband and children. If in our contact with this brother we had seen nothing but sorrow and tears, we would have had a sense of shame. In such a case, the loss of his wife would have brought him into shame, and there would have been no manifestation of Christ and no magnification of Him. As a result, there would have been no experience of salvation. Rather, the brother’s experience in grieving over the loss of his wife would not have been different from the experience of an unbeliever. However, with this brother the situation was very different. He could rejoice, praise the Lord, and testify of the Lord’s grace. Truly in his situation the Lord was manifested and magnified, and the brother experienced salvation. In this experience of salvation, the brother was saved in his suffering from the loss of his wife. Furthermore, this salvation enabled the brother to magnify Christ. (Witness Lee, excerpt from the Life-study of Philppians, message 7, Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, California, USA). So, I feel something weird here. Can't we cry or feel sad when our beloved ones have passed away? Or we just try to be happy all the time. I feel the toxic positivity in Lee's teaching. This kind of teaching is very unhealthy for our spiritual life. Lord Jesus cried for Lazarus. Should He be put to shame because He failed to magnify Father? This doesn't make sense.